#{Dusty headcanons}

[kelddaa]

Hermit-a-Day #6: Mumbo!

This is part of a fundraiser for Gamer’s Outreach, be sure to check it out + see what all the other participants are up to!

[equusmaniac]

Transformers Headcannons

Optimus and Soundwave know the Transformers version of ballet.

Soundwave is a DJ. He makes his own music, and based one of his albums off of his cassettes.

Jazz plays the cybertronian equivalent of a saxophone and cello.

Megatron can sing the deep, opera-type stuff, like Bella Ciao. But he's really self-conscious (it doesn't fit his brutal persona, haha) about it and doesn't much.

[praxcrown5]

Geology and the World of Cars: Part 2

Last time, we tackled metamorphic rocks. Today, we're gonna learn about igneous rocks! My favorites! Grab your aluminized suit and hug your Blade plushy, 'cause things are gonna get HOT.

Note: Any time you see information followed by an asterisk (*), it is a reference to my own, personal WOC headcanon.

Igneous rock formation is the easiest for humans to comprehend because the basic principals--melting and freezing--are very familiar to us AND happen on time scales that our silly, monkey brains can actually understand.

Behold! An igneous rock!

In all seriousness, if not for being man-made, this horrifying Spongebob popsicle could be classified as an igneous rock!

How?

Igneous rocks form from the cooling of molten rock (called magma or lava depending on whether it is underground or above ground, respectively).

Ice, believe it or not, IS an igneous rock. This is because the ice crystals that comprise it meet all the criteria to be classified as a mineral: They are naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline solids with definite chemical compositions. To make ice, or any other igneous rock, a molten medium must be chilled to its "freezing point." Water has a freezing point of 32 Degrees F (0 degrees C). At this temperature the movement of individual water molecules is so slow that they start bonding with other water molecules into a repeating, three-dimensional lattice which we call a crystal.

As crystals continue to form and grow at the expense of the melt, they start bumping into other crystals, fusing with them along their edges. Once all the water has been used up, we're left with a solid composed of thousands of interlocking ice crystals.

Igneous rock forms in basically the same way, except that the freezing temperature of molten rock varies between 1,100 and 2,400°F (600-1,300°C)! This is why if you ever see scientists getting close to fresh lava, they wear special, heat-resistant suits that look like they'd fit in to any 1950's era science fiction motion picture.

*Note* I'm not going to into the details of magmagenesis (the formation of magma)...it could be it's own article, tbh. Suffice to say that molten rock is only generated in very specific environments along very specific plate boundaries. Volcanoes are the surface expression of magmagenesis, and most of them can be found in a belt of tectonic activity that "rings" the Pacific ocean, hence it's colloquial name "The Ring of Fire." Most of y'all don't need to worry about a volcano popping up in your backyard...

Ok...so let's apply what we've learned so far to the World of Cars, starting with volcanism.

A "volcano" is a mountain created when "volcanic materials," such as ash and lava, pile up over a fissure in the Earth's crust. There are many different types of volcanoes, each with their own eruptive styles and geomorphology (aka physical traits).

The only actively erupting volcano we see in the WOC is the unnamed mountain in Cars on the Road Episode 1: Dino Park.

Lookit how 'dorbs it is! Such a cute, widdle guy....

Note the steep sides and "cone" shaped profile. This shape is characteristic of "stratovolcanoes," a family of volcanoes that are built from alternating layers ("strata") of hardened lava and "tephra" (fragmented rock of varying sizes). Normally the slopes aren't as steep as what's depicted here, though there are exceptions (Ol Doinyo Lengai, Goma, etc...). Compare this to the much more realistic depiction of Mt. Fuji--also a stratovolcano--in Cars 2.

Fuji's sleek and beautiful cone was built on the remains of older volcanoes over a vast swath of geologic time (the earliest eruption on record was from 12,000 BE (Before Exodus--4.12 million years B.P.*). It warms my heart--no pun intended--that the animators really did their best to convey her size and natural beauty on the digital canvas.

Evidence of Plutonic (i.e. underground) processes: Piston Peak National Park (PPNP):

PPNP was modeled VERY heavily off of an Old World landmark: Yosemite National Park. After analyzing DOZENS of screencaps, it appears that the underlying geology is comparable to Yosemite, and I headcanon that the modern V6 valley is located in approximately the same location as Yosemite, albeit different due to a combination of time, terraforming and geologic processes.*

Piston Peak National Park is located within the heart of the Sierra Nevada, a massive, 300-mile long mountain range in California.* Most of the rocks in and around the valley are classified as "granitoids" AKA granite-like igneous rocks.

Most of you may be familiar with the word "granite." Maybe your ma installed some fancy, new "granite" countertops or you were touring a building that had "granite" floors. Notice I'm using a lot of quotation marks here...mostly because the word "granite" has become something of an umbrella term that folks use whenever they encounter something made out of sparkly rock. To a geologist, the word "granite" brings to mind an igneous rock that is "coarse-grained" (its component minerals are large enough to identify without a microscope) and contains the minerals quartz, alkali feldspar and plagioclase feldspar in a specific proportion (see graph below):

So...what does the rock actually look like? Below is a sample of rock that was collected from a long-since weathered landform called Half-Dome (close to where modern-day Piston Peak is located*).

Each speck of color you see here is a different mineral: The pinks and whites are various feldspar minerals, the grey-ish white ones are quartz and the darker minerals are hornblende and biotite. And while there is no scale bar in this image, the largest black mineral is about .5-1cm long. Big enough that you can see it without a microscope. To get crystals this big, magma must cool slowly...and usually that means staying underground for 10s or 1000s to millions of years (otherwise it would cool so quickly that the mineral crystals would be microscopic).

Now that we know what type of rock we're dealing with, let's zoom out a bit and look at ancient Yosemite and it's modern equivalent, V6 Valley.*

Most all of the rock that you see in these images is granite or granodiorite. That's a hell of a lot of cooled magma, well over 100 square kilometers of it. And due to the course-grained nature of the rock, all of it should have originated as huge, underground magma chambers that cooled slowly over tens of thousands of years.

So...how did it get to the surface?

The short answer is regional uplift. Most of the solidified magma (AKA "plutons") was emplaced during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Much later, during the Neogene period, new tectonic forces caused blocks of the now mostly-solid Sierra Nevadas (and the underlying igneous rocks) to rise upward. This exposed the rocks to greater amounts of wind and water erosion. Westward-flowing streams, especially, began to carve down through the rock creating deep, v-shaped valleys. Many times these rivers cut down a LOT faster than their "tributaries" (the smaller streams that flow into a larger one), creating "hanging valleys" and waterfalls. The waterfall at Augerin Canyon is an excellent example.

Other interesting features:

Desquamation (essentially, "removing or loss of scales"):

Remember how all this rock used to be deep underground? Once all of the overlying rock and sediment (collectively "overburden") was removed, the rocks were exposed to surface pressures, and began to to depressurize, breaking along curved fractures, creating an onion-skin like appearance to many exposed rock surfaces.

Image above: Desquamation on granite in Ancient Yosemite.*

Images above: Desquamation on modern Canopy Dome, Piston Peak and on the canyon walls near the park entrance!

Bonus Cabbie butt for...aesthetic reasons.

*Bonus geology--not igneous related*

Another thing you'll also notice in PPNP is that large swaths of rock appear to have been smoothed out. While you could chalk this up to animators not having the time/budget to render "accurate" rock texture, this type of erosion is VERY common in mountainous areas that have been affected by glaciers. A "Glacier" is channelized ice that flows downhill under its own weight. As the ice descends, it picks up sediment, everything from boulders to clay, and then drags it over the topography. Rugged crags are rounded or carved into sharp blades or spires (if they weren't covered), and v-shaped canyons and valleys take on U-shaped profiles (check out the group shot below).

I'm certain that if we zoomed in on some of the exposed rock, we'd also see "glacial striations" and/or "glacial polish," where the rock was scratched and/or polished by the sediment laden ice.

There's also some cool, structural stuff going on elsewhere in the park (Thunderbolt Bluffs and Rail Ridge...), but we'll discuss them in a future essay.

Ok, back to igneous stuffs...

Hot springs and Geysers:

Hot springs and geysers (collectively called "geothermal" features), are manifestations of volcanic activity. They form when groundwater, heated by magma or hot rock deep under ground, reaches the surface. A geyser differs from a hot spring in that the heated water flashes to steam and explodes upward in a stunning spray of steam and mist. Gasket Geyser is one such example.

The only feature in the park that appears out of place is Piston Peak, itself.

Piston Peak is a combination of two, different geologic landforms: a "hoodoo" and an "arch." Unfortunately, these delicate features require specific conditions to form: Variation in rock type (usually layered, sedimentary rock) and minimal moisture. The rocks in and around V6 valley are similar enough, compositionally and structurally, that they erode in a more uniform way compared to, say, the rocks in Monument Valley. Furthermore, there's quite a bit of water present in PPNP, flowing as rivers, and falling as rain or snow. Ice that forms within a crack or fracture can actually wedge the rock apart over long periods of time, a process called "frost wedging." Combined with desquamation, and Piston Peak should have been reduced to a pile of rubble within a few centuries. The same holds true for the arches inside Augerin Canyon (below). They're simply much too delicate to exist in a climate with severe winters that can dump as much as 15' of snow during a single event.

It is possible that these features were carved from existing features to accent their natural shapes, but since we don't have any canon evidence for that, such an assumption falls withing the realm of conjecture/headcanon.

That's all I got for now. Stay tuned for WOC Geology Part 3: Sedimentary Rocks.

Cheers!

Praxyw

[dusty-cobweb]

julian bashir stutters !!!

which yknow he was kinda upset about because he felt so dumb to people. he knew he was intelligent, but he just couldn’t articulate it in a way that other people could understand. he always paused during his sentences, letting his words catch up to his thoughts. tripped over words, tongue going to the next syllable before he even got to the first.

and when people hear those pauses and breaks, it’s like they forget about everything else. screw theoretical hyperbolic geometry applications to worldly development, it wouldn’t fucking matter if he mixed the words up.

but, it does hide him. hides him well. because no matter how smart you are, how enhanced or augmented, it doesn’t matter if you have a stutter.

[kalied0skull]

sodapop curtis who needs glasses and just doesn't know it because he's lived his whole life without the money for them and it's not bad enough for him to not be able to see... until it is...

[kaivenom]

Please please please write more headcanons of Heartbreak High characters 😍😍

Heartbreak High Boys asking you on a date HCS

Spencer "Spider" White

He knows he has a reputation of being a little asshole.

So he is a but self aware when he is about to ask you.

He wants It to be perfect and for you to see the real him.

He gets a small bouquet of flowers and he even had a speech on his hand.

In all the flirting stuff he is very open and proud about it (like we saw on the show) but when it's time to get emotionally involved he gets really clumsy.

Anthony "Ant" Vaughn

He doesn't consider it a date at first, he asked you to just hang out and take dinner.

He was chilling and then he thought "oh, maybe she is being comfortable and friendly and this can turn into a date".

So he asks you, in the middle of eating dinner, if you want It to be a date.

He is very clumsy and nervous but incredibly cute, you couldn't say no.

Then he gets more touchy and tries to be romantic to make the change from habg out to date.

It is still very funny to be with him, date or hang out.

Douglas "Cash" Piggot

He overthinks everything and anything.

He plans all things to be perfect and to be away from his house and his granny.

This is because he doesn't want the chance to have sex to happen.

So, he asks you like a normal person but spents all they worried that you would ask him to get home or somenthing.

At one point of the afternoon, you have to ask him and you two will have a talk in his car about limits and what he is willing to do and what he isn't prepared.

He thought he would melt right there in the seat of the car.

He is more than thankfull to you for listening to him and all.

That being talked, he could be relaxed the rest of the date.

Dusty Reid

Cool and calm.

He knows he is attractive and that you will say yes (he investigates about it before).

He approaches you at school and just lays on the locker, asking you out with a calm face.

Even if you think is calm face means he is being serious, he has prepared a whole afternoon for actvities and thinks you like.

He has the reputation of a playboy, which means you will not trust him at first.

That's why he makes so much effort in demostrate you he knows you and he is willing to do these things with you.

[dxstydigits]

Dusty making BJ x reader hcs?? It’s more likely than you think.

OKAY SOME FLUFF (minor injury tw) Whenever you get injured, Beej usually brushes it off

It isn’t because he doesn’t care, it’s because he doesn’t really understand how your injuries work, you’re a breather after all. For him, a fatal injury could feel like nothing to him! Do you… not so much. Whenever you DO need help with a pretty bad injury, Beej doesn’t know what to do other than put an ice pack on it

you eventually introduce him to the idea that humans and demons/ghosts work differently, telling him that something that may not hurt for him will most likely hurt for you

so this spirals into Beetlejuice becoming extremely overprotective, staying by your side constantly, trying to shield anything that may cause damage to your feeble human body (both physically and emotionally)

he’ll get over it eventually, in the meantime Y/N has to deal with their scarab boyfriend trying to be their scarab bodyguard

[lxnely-lullaby]

Happy Pride to the rest of the Wings Around The Globe Rally air racers and Dusty Crophopper. Although I'm not entirely as invested in the air racers as I am with the Cars characters and the Planes: F&R characters, the headcanons that I came up for them were instantaneous. For Bulldog, I always saw him as an ace in the hole, but he's an LGBTQ+ ally for his WATGR friends. For Rochelle, I kinda headcanoned her as a mtf trans characters, and when I laid my eyes on Ishani in the first Planes movie, my mind immediately thought her as a lesbian because she never seemed that in love with Dusty and saw him as a friend. And as for Dusty, I never had an LGBTQ+ headcanons for him until a few months ago, where he struck me as a pansexual character. Anyways, happy pride to everyone out there and I hope you have an awesome day/afternoon/night. Enjoy!

[nebbbula2]

[13] Unhinged cars or planes headcanon of the week:

Skipper watched Top Gun for the plot

Chug watched Top Gun for the plot (the F-18s)

Dottie watched Top Gun for the plot (the hot men)

Dusty watched Top Gun for the plot (the hot men and the F-18s)

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[forsaken-headcanons]

my dumbass has been checking my old tag for stuff LMAO - 💫 ✝

pov us on occasion with the mod nooby tag

[askcadspinner]

I'm gonna torture you and blackmail you.

From your's truly,

M.A

british man jumpscare

[equusmaniac]

Transformers Headcannon

Megatron is half deaf in his right audial from continuous use of his cannon, and by the end of the war he’s almost completely deaf on that side.

[arialux-astralites]

Opus doesn't allow succulents, if a trainee brought it in to take care of? fine, but otherwise, you never find such things in the building. (my personal vendetta against succulents is being projected, can you tell?)

[undertale-writing-times]

Can you do a bad sans x reader where the reader is apart of the bad sans but like their human or sum I feel like I would look weird as a sans, it can be platonic or romantic idgaf I love ur writing tho😍

Aww thanks! :D I'm so happy to hear that.

Being the human of the Bad Sanses, was a bit strange. They were shockingly protective of you! Killer always liked to lay on top of you, finding it pleasant. He always cuddles up against you and when it’s time to all lay together, he normally would lay on top of you, while you’re on Axe and Dusty could lay beside you two, maybe even resting his head against your side/arm. Nightmare sits with you guys but doesn’t join the cuddle pile and Error doesn’t either.

They normally wouldn’t let you tag along on the missions, saying that it would be too dangerous while other times they would take you on ‘missions’ but you knew that they were just dates that they wanted you to think were missions so you would stop asking. 

You weren’t stupid, but you never said anything, finding it a little amusing. You had to spend an equal amount of time with them all, sometimes one on one. With Dusty, you two mostly just sat together in a nice silence and watched movies or read books. Same for Nightmare. With Killer, he liked to take you out to walk in the forest or go to random AUs. Axe liked to make food and get you to eat. You were his favorite taste tester!

With Error, they mostly just hung out with you when you spent time with the others. They didn’t care too much about their own alone time.

It was nice! Though you knew that they were way too protective sometimes. One time a guy tried to talk to you and they all just started glaring so hard you were prepared to have to save the dude! Luckily, nothing happened.

[autismtana]

heartbreak high school subject headcanons

(from your friendly neighbourhood gay sydney born and raised ibis lover)

[*mentioned or implied in canon; e.g. missy in season 1 is shown revising something to do with indigenous perspectives on country which suggests she's taking aboriginal studies, darren skips drama to hang out with ca$h who skips design and technology, ca$h is also doing chemistry]

these are based on school subjects most nsw public schools tend to offer in year 11 and 12. everyone has to do english and iirc maths is also being made compulsory (but most schools require students to take it regardless of whether it's compulsory or not for timetabling reasons).

please read this if you're not from nsw/sydney and want to learn more about the nsw school system.

amerie wadia: english advanced, maths standard, society and culture, modern history, biology, community and family studies

harper mclean: english advanced, maths advanced, economics, chemistry, visual arts, modern history

quinni gallagher jones: english advanced, maths standard, visual arts, ancient history, community and family studies, drama

darren rivers: english standard, maths standard, drama*, visual arts, food technology, community and family studies

douglas piggott: english studies, maths standard, design and technology*, visual arts (purely basing this off him giving darren a stick and poke), VET hospitality, chemistry*

sasha so: english advanced, maths standard, visual arts, society and culture, legal studies, earth and environmental science

missy beckett: english advanced, maths standard, ancient history, aboriginal studies*, visual arts, biology

spencer white: english standard, maths standard, pdhpe, industrial tech, business studies, economics

anthony vaughn: english studies, numeracy, sport lifestyle and recreation (SLR), VET construction*, work studies, barbering (through TAFE)

malakai mitchell: english standard, maths advanced, pdhpe, aboriginal studies, legal studies, modern history

zoe clarke: english standard, maths standard, society and culture, design and technology, drama, community and family studies

rowan callaghan: english standard, maths standard, biology, industrial tech, photography, visual design

dustin reid (prior to leaving and probaby what he does at st bruno's as well): english advanced, maths advanced, music 1 (and he is really annoying in it and thinks he's the shit), modern history, society and culture, economics

[oculusxcaro]

Fun fact about Khare, when she's not working, she likes browsing second hand shops for clothes, every day items and anything else that catches her eye. Most of what she buys is pretty standard or stuff from a nostalgic childhood but it's not impossible for her to have a legit Jumanji gameboard.